Before we dig into the nuts and bolts of building a presentation,…let's preview what we are going to be creating over the next few movies.…Since InDesign allows you to create presentations for both PDF and SWF,…let's take a look at both.…If you are going to be presenting a PDF, you should present it in either Acrobat…Professional or the free Adobe Reader.…I am inside Acrobat Professional, and I am going to go to View > Full Screen Mode.…I could also hit Command+L, or Ctrl+L on the PC.…Inside Full Screen mode, I'll be hiding distracting elements from the UI, and…you'll be able to see screen transitions.…

In the lower right-hand corner, I have a series of navigation buttons that allows…me to go forward and backward throughout the document.…You'll notice that I have a transition that occurs between each particular slide.…If I jump to the end of the presentation, I have a series of hyperlinks that…brings us to a web site.…I'll allow the security warning, and I can find out more information on the web site.…

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11/13/2010

In InDesign CS5: Interactive Documents and Presentations, Adobe Certified Instructor and designer James Fritz shows print designers how to use InDesign by itself and in conjunction Flash Professional to layout and design a wide range of digital documents. The course provides a tour of digital publishing trends, showing real-world examples of what can be achieved through InDesign. Several start-to-finish projects are also included, such as creating a presentation with transitions and animations, and building an interactive microsite. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Studying new trends in digital design

Creating a PDF and SWF presentation

Building different navigation systems

Creating interactive slideshows

Animating a presentation as a SWF in InDesign

Designing an interactive microsite

Adding video and audio to a document

Building an interactive TOC with buttons

Using InDesign and Flash to build an interactive catalog

InDesign to Flash production tips

Skill Level Intermediate

3h 51m

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Q: I am having trouble creating a YouTube-linked video to play on a page in SWF or interactive PDF. I've followed the tutorial, but I keep getting a message that the video should be Flash compliant. How do I link directly to a YouTube video?

A: It is not possible to link directly to a YouTube video through copy and pasting the URL on the page. In order to link to the video, you need the exact link to the .flv video file.

Are the source files for the interactive publication Born Presents still available? www.adobe.com/products/indesign/customers doesn't seem to be working.

Q: When I add audio to my multi-page project and export it as a PDF, why doesn't the music play past the first page?

A: Unfortunately, there is no way to have an MP3 play across multiple pages of a PDF. It looks like you could because of the wording of the Media panel when you have an MP3 selected, but that isn't the case. You can have an MP3 play across pages of a SWF, which is why that option exists.

This is an inconvenience, but we're not aware of a way around this limitation inside a PDF. You could try making one really big PDF and have buttons jump to another part of the page (using anchors), but every one would have to be on 1 page.

Q: Why does an ugly gray box appear when the audio is played. The author keeps the audio on the pasteboard, which for me, does not play the audio at all when exported. It only plays when on the page.

A: If you are seeing a gray box, make sure that you have set a poster for the audio file. Select the frame and open the Media panel, where you can select your own raster image as a poster frame or just leave it as none. You could also check to see if your frame has a fill applied to it, since there is a chance you could have accidentally applied an
object style or a fill.